Mop-holder



( No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PAT NT OFFICE.

CASPER CROSS, OF XVARSAW, NEY YORK.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 556,253, dated March10, 1896.

Application filed August 28, 1894. Serial No. 521,519. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, CASPER CROSS, a citizen of the United States,residing at Warsaw, in the county of WVyoming and State of New York,have invented a new and useful Mop- Holder, of which the following is aspecification.

The invention relates to improvements in mop-holders.

The object of the present invention is to improve the construction ofmop-holders and to provide a simple and inexpensive device which willpossess strength and durability and which will be capable of securelyholding and readily releasing a mop-cloth or the like.

The invention consists in the construction and novel combination andarrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in theaccompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claim hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the mop-holderconstructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a longitudinalsectional view taken transversely of the shoe. Fig. 3 is a similar viewtaken longitudinally of the shoe. Fig. 4 is a detail perspective view ofthe lever.

Likenumerals of reference designate corre sponding parts in all thefigures of the drawings.

1 designates a handle having a lower ta pered end 2, adapted to fit intoa corresponding socket 3 of a shoe 1. The shoe 4: is constructed ofmetal and extends from opposite sides of the handle 1, and the outerface of the shoe is provided with a groove 5, disposed longitudinallythereof and having at its ends rearwardly and outwardly flaring portions6. The groove 5 is adapted for the reception of the outer end 7 of arectangular clampingframe, which secures a mop-cloth to the shoe, asillustrated in dotted lines in Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawings.

The outer end 7 of the clamping-frame is of a length nearlyequal to thatof the shoe 4:. The sides of the frame are arranged parallel and arelocated at opposite sides of the han dle, and the inner ends of theframe terminate at opposite sides of the handle and are provided withjournals 11 and lugs 12. The clamping-frame is constructed of a singlepiece of wire, which is coiled adjacent to the inner terminals of thesides to form springs 10, arranged within the rectangular clampingframeand located at opposite sides of the handle.

An. operating-lever is fulcrumed on the handle 1 by a staple 14. It isconstructed of a single piece of wire and is provided at its lower endwith an eye 13, which is linked into the staple 14 of the handle. Theeye 13 is arranged on the front face of the handle, and the lever isprovided at a point intermediate of its ends with curved lateralextensions terminating in eyes 15, which receive the journals 11 of theclamping-frames. The curved extensions conform closely to theconfiguration of the handle, and the lugs 12 prevent the journals frombecoming disengaged from the eyes 15. The stem 16 of the operatingleveris twisted and is provided at its upper extremity with an eye and isadapted to lie on the front face of the handle when the clamping-frameis in its locked position. The clamping-frame exerts a straight downwardpull on the operating-lever, which is held firmly in its locked positionby reason of the eyes 15 of the curved laterally-disposed portions,being located at the sides of the handle, while the lower end and thestemof the lever are arranged on the front face of the handle. The stemof the operating-lever enables the clamping-frame to be readily releasedwhen desired, and the arrangement of parts prevents the clamping-framefrom being accidentally released.

It will be seen that the mop-holder is exceedingly simple andinexpensive in construction, that it is strong and durable, and that itis capable of securely holding a mop cloth and of readily releasing thesame when desired.

hat I claim is In a mop-holder, the combination with a handle, of a shoeextending from opposite sides of the lower end of the handle, arectangular clamping-frame having its outer end engaging the shoe andprovided at the inner terminals of its sides with spring-coils andhaving the terminals of its inner ends provided with journals, and anoperating-lever pivoted at its lower end on the front face of the handleand having a stem bearing against the front face of the handlesubstantially its locked position, substantially as and for the purposedescribed.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixedmy signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

(JASPER CROSS. \Vitnesses:

E. D. SMITH, FRANK BRIGHAM.

